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title: A price like £1.99 is 1p less than £2, so three items at £1.99 cost… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A price like £1.99 is 1p less than £2, so three items at £1.99 cost £6 minus 3p, which is £5.97. Who acts: price, three items. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 14

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A price like £1.99 is 1p less than £2, so three items at £1.99 cost £6 minus 3p, which is £5.97.

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**Who acts:** price, three items · **What happens:** be, cost · **To what, where:** 1 p

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (price, three items), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:14
# text = A price like £1.99 is 1p less than £2, so three items at £1.99 cost £6 minus 3p, which is £5.97.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	nmod	_	_
5	1.99	1.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	nmod	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	nmod	_	_
19	1.99	1.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obj|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:ExtPos=ADP
22	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	appos	_	_
30	5.97	5.97	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	29	nummod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a price | 1 p |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cost** | present | three items |  |  |  |  | minus 3 p | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:14`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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